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Children will read this Reader&#39;s Theater script, then answer&nbsp;questions designed to support their understanding of the characters, story, and message of the play.

Reader’s Theater: Fourth of July

Have students think about each character’s journey with this character-specific beginning, middle, and end story map. Students can complete maps for different characters, then compare and contrast!

Character Actions

It's important for students to understand how characters and the storyline are interconnected. Help your students break down individual character responses to major story events with this graphic organizer.

Character Reactions

Use this resource to practice close reading in a fictional text. Your students will look at the adjectives, adverbs, and verbs that give more details about the important story elements.

Close Reading in Fiction

Analyzing what a character says and does in a story can help determine their personality or character traits. This resource gives students practice in harnessing this important reading comprehension skill.

Dialogue and Actions to Show Character Traits

After independent reading, check in to see how students are understanding what they read. Having students make character paper dolls is a fun way to assess their comprehension and bring the story to life!

Character Paper Dolls

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Comparing and Contrasting Scary Stories

Being able to describe and compare character development is an important skill for young readers. Using this handy graphic organizer, students will use adjectives to compare characters at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Compare Characters

Reinforce grammar and comprehension as you support your students in understanding the elements of a fictional text! In this activity, students will practice identifying verbs and rewriting the beloved story of "The Frog Prince" in their own words.

Using My Own Words: The Frog Prince

Have students consider a character’s attributes and actions with this cute and memorable organizer! After reading a book, students will draw a picture and describe the characters. Then they'll summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Character Butterfly

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

Part 1: Making Connections with Texts

Good readers make inferences using story details and their own background knowledge to figure out information that isn't provided by the author. Help your students practice making inferences using quotes from their reading with this graphic organizer.

Inferring with Quotes

Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.

What Would the Character Do?

Stories are a fantastic way to teach kids important life lessons. This reading comprehension worksheet uses the classic Aesop’s fable—The Fox and the Crow—to get your students thinking about the central lesson of a story.

The Fox and the Crow

Using this worksheet template, students plan their work by filling out a plot diagram with their story's exposition, rising action climax, falling action, and climax.

Plot Diagram

Making a timeline is a good way to sort out a story's events. Double the challenge by having kids make The Hobbit timeline, one of the book and one of the film.

The Hobbit Timeline

Use this fall-themed Reader&rsquo;s Theater script to give your students practice reading fluently. Then, challenge them with reading comprehension questions about the characters and events.

Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival

Reader’s Theater: Fall Festival Fun

Help students practice close reading with this character detective worksheet.

Become a Character Detective

What better way to learn about characters in stories than to become one? In this activity, students take on the role of a character as they act out scenes with a partner.

You Are a Character!

Short stories, such as The Crow and the Jug, make great reading comprehension tools. Use this short Aesop’s fable to get your second graders thinking about central lessons and morals.

The Crow and the Jug

Children revisit Bram Stoker's classic Dracula novel from the perspective of two other characters in this creative writing exercise.

Dracula

Help your child understand how conflicts factor into plots with this inventive reading worksheet.

Conflict

Read about why kangaroos hop on two legs, in Rudyard Kipling's "The Sing Song of Old Kangaroo." Your kid will answer reading questions and color illustrations.

The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo

Use this worksheet to practice sequencing a character’s feelings using transition words.

Character Changes Order

Have a storytelling adventure with Cinderella! Little readers will love putting their own spin on a classic fairy tale.

Cinderella Storytelling

Historic novels are rich sources of reading practice and this graphic organizer is a nod to prairie classics like those written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Prairie Girl Character Traits

A Christmas Carol characters include Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and Jacob Marley. Learn about A Christmas Carol characters with this festive worksheet.

A Christmas Carol: Characters

After reading <em>Esperanza Rising</em> by Pam Mu&ntilde;oz Ryan, students can reflect on the themes and events of the novel with these writing prompts!

Novel Study: Esperanza Rising: Post-Reading Response Prompts

Children are invited to create their own works of fan fiction with this inventive worksheet template.

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